A few weeks ago, I had bought 5 VGC for $500 each, all on separate transactions at Safeway. My store knows me really well and are okay with this volume. Every once in a while, the cashiers will tell me, “Oh yeah, we got a call after you left asking about the purchases.” Usually the […]
I had made a post about how Amazon closed my account a few years ago due to a high GC balance. I get a comment once a month or so of it happening to normal folks. So what happened here? Once again, I was adding gift cards to my Amazon account and it got up […]
Back in December 2020, Alaska was letting folks convert travel credit to miles. So I had this genius idea of booking a $3.5K first class flight for 2 from Seattle to Hawaii using my CNB rewards points. After booking the trip, a few days later when I tried to cancel the flight on the Alaska […]
I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve been shut down by Paypal. I had heard of a mini wave of shutdowns in early January, but I figured the train had left the station for my account anyway. Sure enough, about two weeks ago, Paypal asked me to verify some transactions basically asking me what […]
Bad Bunny is one of the hottest artists today and his tickets went on sale last Wednesday for a tour in 2022 (means a long time to float money.) I had notified the Slack group about the opportunity. I went and tried to pull some Brooklyn tickets; my Ticketmaster queue was horrible and by the […]